Chamari: "Aravinda, have you been to Kataragama?"Aravinda: "No, I've never been there." Chamari: "What? That's unbelievable for someone born in Deniyaya! "Aravinda: "Going to Kataragama is not a custom of the rural folk. It is the middle class and wealthy urban people, not the villagers, who venerate the Kataragama god. He is the god of the urbanities. The villagers have now started to imitate the urban people." Chamari:" I thought even villagers used to go to Kataragama long ago." Aravinda: "No, It came from the rich urban Sinhalese of the towns who followed the rich Hindus. . Anonymous
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